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If you have any enquiries in regards to this event please contact Toru Kitagawa toru_kitagawa@brown.edu
Programme
Tuesday, 12th August
8:40 Bus Leaves Otaru Grand Park Hotel
9:00 – 9:25 Coffee and registration
9:25 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Session 1: Chair, Chen Qiu (Cornell)
9:30 – 10:00 Tim Armstrong (USC) “Asymptotic Efficiency Bounds for a Class of Experimental Designs”
10:00 – 10:30 Max Cytrinbaum (Yale) “Finely Stratified Rerandomization Designs”
10:30 – 11:00 Karun Adusumilli (UPenn) “Empirical Bayes for Compound Adaptive Experiments”
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
Session 2: Chair, Soonwoo Kwon (Brown)
11:20 – 11:50 Jonathan Roth (Brown) “Panel Data Methods Exploiting Weather and Other Natural Experiments”
11:50 – 12:20 Rahul Singh (Harvard) “Program evaluation with remotely sensed outcomes”
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Session 3: Chair, Hidehiko Ichimura (Arizona)
13:30 – 14:00 Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago) “Testing Exclusion and Shape Restrictions in Potential Outcome Models”
14:00 – 14:30 Yue Fang (CUHK Shenzhen) “The Exact Variance of the Average Treatment Effect Estimator in Cluster RCT”
14:30 – 15:00 Ben Deaner (UCL) “Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Design Using Comonotonicity”
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break
Session 4: Journal of Econometrics Session: Chair, Isaiah Andrews (MIT)
15:20 – 15:50 Weining Wang (University of Bristol) “Plausible GMM Avenue Bayes”
15:50 – 16:20 Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) “Testing for Identification in Potentially Misspecified Linear GMM”
16:20 – 16:50 Andrew Chesher (UCL) “Nonlinear panels with unrestricted fixed effects”
16:50 – 17:10 Coffee Break
Session 5: Chair Tetsuya Kaji (Chicago)
17:10 – 17:40 Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt) “Uniform Nonparametric Policy Learning”
17:40 – 18:10 Joel Terschuur (TMU) “Debiased Machine Learning U-statistics”
19:00 – Conference Dinner @ Otaru Grand Park Hotel (Room TBA)
Wednesday, 13th August
8:30 Bus Leaves Otaru Grand Park Hotel
Session 6: Chair, Kohei Yata (Wisconsin-Madison)
9:00 – 9:30 Joerg Stoye (Cornell) “On Purification of Statistical Decisions”
9:30 – 10:00 Aleksey Tetenov (University of Geneve) “Bounds on Maximum Regret of the Empirical Success Treatment Rule”
10:00 – 10:30 Davide Viviano (Harvard) “Generalizability with ignorance in mind: learning what we do (not) know for archetypes discovery”
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
Session 7: Chair, Jiaying Gu (Toronto)
10:50 – 11:20 Andriy Norets (Brown) “Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Nonseparable Instrumental Variable Regression”
11:20 – 11:50 Shuyang Sheng (CUHK Shenzhen) “Social Interactions in Endogenous Groups”
11:50 – 12:20 Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford) “Identification of Nonlinear Structural VARs”
12:20 – 13:20 Lunch
Closing and Adjourn